How much revenue did Wooden Ocean make?

$34k–$91k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wooden Ocean sell?

Q: How many copies did Wooden Ocean sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 249 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $34k–$91k after Steam's cut $62k–$140k before the cut; from 249 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Wooden Ocean out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wooden Ocean's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–19k

best case 92k (BLACKTAIL)

Games like Wooden Ocean

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–19k copies

≈ $3k–$167k after Steam's cut

from ~58 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: BLACKTAIL at ≈ 70k–114k copies, ≈ $579k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 534.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Action-Adventure, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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